A 24-year-old woman was pushed to the ground during an attempted assault outside a city pub on Saturday night.

The woman was approached by man outside the Swanswell on Swanswell Street at approximately 1.30am.

She received minor injuries to her hands during the incident.

A taxi driven by a white man stopped to help the woman and took her to Stoney Stanton Road police station.

Police are looking for a man of Eastern European origin, aged 25 to 30, around 6ft tall, with jet black gelled hair, parted in the centre, bushy black eyebrows, wearing a blue shirt with a large collar.

Officers would especially like to talk to the taxi driver as he may have witnessed the incident.